A newly discovered comet is about to make its closest pass to Earth on Tuesday night. It should be visible over the Central Coast before it disappears — and won’t be seen again for more than a ...

A newly discovered comet is about to make its closest pass to Earth on Tuesday night. It should be visible over the Bay Area before it disappears — and won’t be seen again for more than a thousand ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — The chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, Jon Green, is defying an order from ...

There are four guarantees for summertime in Indiana: Heat, humidity, sweat and hoverflies. The first three are easy to explain. Here's a look at the fourth. You may also know hoverflies by another ...

So long as I manage to avoid lightbulbs or stay out of wine glasses, the buzzing will inevitably give way to silence. My wings will abruptly stop flapping and I’ll careen towards the ground like an ...

The goal each summer is to do a "bucket list" fly fishing trip. Normally, they are to a western state, but there have been three to Pennsylvania after the first one turned out to be better than ...

Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a swarm could be the livestock industry’s best defense against a flesh-eating ...

Move over, sharks. Greenhead flies are the real summer predator to fear. The greenhead, a bloodsucking type of horsefly identifiable by their iridescent green eyeballs, have emerged from their eggs in ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A Greensboro doctor is back home on Earth after an out-of-this-world experience with Blue Origin. Radiologist Dr. Gretchen Green launched into space Saturday morning, part of a ...

Black flies are small, gnat-like insects that swarm and bite, causing itchy welts. Peak black fly season in Michigan is mid-May to mid-June, primarily in the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower ...

Many people across the nation are clamoring to replace their driver’s license and state IDs with the Real ID-compliant cards now required for U.S. domestic flights. As of May 7, all U.S. citizens over ...